Janet Jackson concert descends into farce as crowds walk out after just two songs claiming show was a lipsynching disaster
Singer Janet Jackson was accused of lipsyncing during her performance at the RNB event in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday, November 15. Things got so bad that just two songs into her performance, furious concertgoers exited the arena.
The latest criticism came just a week after the 53-year-old singer received similar backlash at her performance at an event in Perth on November 8.
Stuart Watson, one of the attendees at Friday's concert told The Sunday Mail that the event was going smoothly till Janet took the stage. "When Janet Jackson came on it was just a disaster," he said. "Her sound was just terrible. She would be singing and then all of a sudden just do random stuff."
Videos taken at the event showed the "Anytime, Anyplace" songstress never going out of breath even though she jumped around on the stage while performing her songs. Concertgoer Stacey-Anne Ritchie said she had seen so many people walk out of a concert for the first time in her life.
However, not everyone blamed Janet for her lackluster performance as they sympathized with the fact that she was aging. "I can't believe all of the people bagging the artists," one woman wrote. "I can't fault them and as for Janet Jackson I think we need to remember she's not 20-something anymore and with her choreography singing would be hard."
The Black Eye Peas, which also performed at the event, was also at the receiving end of some of the negative comments as they were slammed for being half an hour late for their performance.
Pamela Lewis, 34, who attended Janet's performance in Perth last week, said that she was disappointed with the show.
"It was the worst performance of the night and probably the worst I've seen," Lewis said. "Once [Jackson] was on stage she started lip-syncing and it was so obvious she was dancing around trying to move the mic over her lips so we couldn't see and she kept putting her hair over her face. Everyone started leaving and everyone was saying how disappointing it was."